Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
VanagonEuroVan
Subject:PS Re: Timing vanagon without timing scale, only insturment ?'s
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:06:00 -0400

At 04:21 PM 10/22/2008, David Beierl wrote:
Erm...620mm/72 = 8.61...mm last I looked.  And as Mark said, the /72
>represents five degrees, otherwise it would be /360.  So 8.5 mm (plus
>a "red one" if you're feeling picky) should be just about right.

Technically that distance is the length of the arc around the
circumference; but measuring with a caliper will give a chord, the
straight-line distance btw the two points.  But for these values
there's no practical difference.

David

--
David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"

Have something to add on this topic today? Revive this thread in the forum »